This article brought to you by LWN subscribersSubscribers to LWN.net made this article — and everything that surrounds it — possible. If you appreciate our content, please buy a subscription and make the next set of articles possible. The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) was, from its inception, written in C and compiled by a C compiler. Beginning in 2008, an effort was undertaken to change GCC so that it could be compiled by a C++ compiler and take advantage of a subset of C++ constructs. This ...